Research & Academic Expertise
CSD Hyderabad provides a platform for researchers to engage in socially relevant research and disseminate knowledge focused on sustainability, inclusion, marginality, democracy and social justice.
Interdisciplinary & Action-Oriented Research
Sustainability and inclusion remain the common threads that weave the research we are engaged in as researchers belonging to different disciplines of social sciences such as economics, political science, anthropology, regional studies and sociology.
CSD promotes interdisciplinary research, international collaborations and exchanges, and action-oriented academic engagements.
Areas of Academic Expertise
Research Experience
The broad areas of research conducted at CSD from 1968 have covered a wide range of social and developmental concerns.
Current Research Concerns
Pandemic, Livelihoods & Labour Markets
Research on the pandemic and its impact on livelihoods, labour markets and barriers.
Environmental Economics
Focusing on mining, displacement, mining closure, social impact assessment, urban forestry and common property resources.
Health & Education
Research concerning access to health and education and the barriers that affect communities.
Intellectual Property & Communities
Research on intellectual property as a community right, with special focus on geographical indications.
Political Participation & Representation
Research on political participation and representation of marginalised communities, including panchayati raj institutions, user associations, watershed management, forest rights and displacement.
Gender, Social Location & Disability
Gender, social location and disability are considered as cross-cutting lenses of marginality across much of the research undertaken at CSD.
Fostering Academic Debates
Through collaborations in the form of research projects, conferences, workshops, lecture series, training programmes on data mining and research methods, and publications including working papers, journal articles, books and newspaper articles, CSD fosters academic debates.